Hubertus Tellenbach

Hubertus Tellenbach , also Hubert Tellenbach (born March 15, 1914 in Cologne , † September 4, 1994 in Munich ) was a German psychiatrist who developed the psychiatric terms of endogeneity and the type melancholicus in a study on melancholy . In addition, he researched, among other things, the role of father in various societies.

Life

Tellenbach studied medicine and philosophy from 1933 to 1938 in Freiburg im Breisgau , Königsberg , Kiel and Munich, and received his doctorate in both subjects. The meeting with Martin Heidegger in Freiburg was formative. During the Second World War he was used as a military doctor and was taken prisoner. He then worked as a neurologist in Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1952 . In 1956 he moved to Heidelberg , where he has held an extraordinary professorship since 1958. In the years of student unrest, he headed a specialist group for psychiatry / psychosomatics . From 1971 until he left the clinic in 1979, he was Medical Director of the Department of Clinical Psychopathology that had been created for him . Tellenbach is the father of the German prehistoric archaeologist Michael Tellenbach .

Psychiatry and Daseinanalysis

Third edition of Melancholy

Following his habilitation, Tellenbach dealt intensively with psychiatric approaches, especially with the analysis of the existence of Ludwig Binswanger , Victor-Emil von Gebsattels and Eugène Minkowski and with the phenomenological psychology of Erwin W. Straus . He wrote works on the modified experience of space and time in melancholy, followed in 1961 by his extensive, fundamental monograph Melancholie. Problem history, endogeneity, typology, pathogenesis, clinic translated into several languages. He described this as the type melancholicus who assessed to melancholy personality when set to order and harmony structures, and tried on this basis to a general concept of endogeneity , the disease causation by a certain existence constitution to arrive.

In 1969 he published a study on taste and atmosphere in which he combined medical and cultural-historical findings. His assessment that the unrest of 1968 could be explained as a reaction of the students to their experience with evasive, non-binding fathers led to the establishment of a working group to examine the role of father in various societies. Their results have been published in four volumes.

Fonts

• Task and development in the young Nietzsche's image of man. Würzburg-Aumühle: Triltsch 1938.
• Melancholy. On the history of the problem, typology, pathogenesis and clinical features. With a foreword by VE von Gebsattel. Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg: Springer 1961. Subtitle of the 2nd, extended edition 1974: Problem history, endogeneity, typology, pathogenesis. In the 3rd edition in 1976 and in the 4th edition in 1983, each of which was expanded again: problem history, endogeneity, typology, pathogenesis, clinic. ISBN 3-540-11255-3 .
• Job and the problem of overcoming oneself. Practice in transcending as a principle of psychotherapeutic melancholy prophylaxis. Stuttgart: Hippocrates 1963.
• The oral sense as a field of expression for endogenous psychotic modifications. In: Zentralblatt fd ges. Neurology and psychiatry. 173/1963.
• The oral sense and the atmospheric. In: Yearbook of Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Medical Anthropology. 12/1965.
• Taste and atmosphere. Media of elementary human contact. Salzburg: Otto Müller Verlag 1968.
• (Editor :) The father image in myth and history. Egypt, Greece. Old Testament, New Testament. Stuttgart et al: Kohlhammer 1976.
• (Editor :) The image of the father in the West. Stuttgart et al: Kohlhammer 1978.
  • Vol. 1: Rome, Early Christianity, Middle Ages, Modern Times, Present.
  • Vol. 2: European literature and poetry.
• (Editor :) Images of father in cultures of Asia, Africa and Oceania. Religious Studies, Ethnology. Stuttgart et al: Kohlhammer 1979.
• Compulsion - delusion - sadness - melancholy: decompositions of normative ways of being. In: Eduard Seidler , Heinz Schott (ed.): Building blocks for the history of medicine. Heinrich Schipperges on his 65th birthday. Stuttgart 1984 (= Sudhoffs Archiv , supplement 24), pp. 139–146.
• Psychiatry as spiritual medicine , Munich: Verlag für angewandte Wissenschaft 1987, ISBN 3-922251-97-8 .
• Melancholy, madness and epilepsy in occidental poetry , Hürtgenwald: Pressler, 1992, ISBN 3-87646-072-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hubertus Tellenbach in the catalog of the German National Library